Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?

By BROCK READ

As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit
encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether to ignore it,
or start contributing

Alexander M.C. Halavais, an assistant professor of
communications at Quinnipiac University, has spent hours and hours
wading through Wikipedia, which has become the Internet's hottest
information source. Like thousands of his colleagues, he has turned
to the open-source encyclopedia for timely information and trivia;
unlike most of his peers,